What Does E = mc² Actually Mean?
It's on t-shirts, on posters, and on the walls of coffee shops in the ‘90s. Everybody can recite it. Almost nobody can tell you what it means. Three letters and a number, written by a 26 year old pate...
14 Aug 11min
How Long Was The Shortest War In History? (Espresso)
Somewhere in the history books there's a war so short most people assume the number is a typo. Real warships, real casualties, two actual governments.It started with a sudden death, a palace, and a ma...
12 Aug 5min
Why Did Van Gogh Really Cut His Own Ear Off?
Everybody knows Van Gogh cut off his ear. Almost nobody knows why. The real answer starts about ten years earlier, with a man who had already failed at four careers and hadn't yet picked up a paintbru...
11 Aug 10min
Why Don't Birds Get Electrocuted on Power Lines? (Refresher)
A bird can land on a power line carrying thousands of volts and feel absolutely nothing. Touch that same line yourself and it kills you instantly. So what does the bird know that you don't? We get int...
9 Aug 6min
What On Earth Is Dark Matter?
Scientists are almost completely certain that 85 percent of the matter in the universe is something nobody has ever detected. So how does anyone know it's there?We get into the astronomer who noticed ...
7 Aug 9min
What Happened To The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World?
Six of the seven wonders of the ancient world are gone, so how does anyone actually know they were ever there? We get into who wrote the list and why it stopped at seven, from the Greek word theamata ...
4 Aug 12min
Was The Titanic Intentionally Sunk? (Refresher)
Was the "unsinkable" Titanic actually sunk on purpose, or has that theory just refused to die for over a century?We get into the wildest Titanic conspiracy theories still circulating today, including ...
2 Aug 9min
Does Hypnotism Actually Work?
Could someone else actually take control of your mind through hypnosis, or is that just something movies made up? We get into the real history of hypnosis, starting with Franz Mesmer's animal magnetis...
31 Juli 10min
